The presence of the counselors at a high school in the Beaverton School District is standard procedure during a traumatic event, said Maureen Wheeler, a school district spokeswoman. All district schools have been closed since Dec. 23 for winter break.

Wheeler would not release any additional information on the boy. The Oregonian is not naming the teen because he is a juvenile.

The Aloha boy's body was spotted by Portland police Thursday afternoon on an embankment under the Vista Bridge after a witness reported seeing the teen sit on a bench at the southeast corner of the structure, heard a gunshot and saw the boy fall, police said.

The boy was pronounced dead at the scene and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday. The incident remains under police investigation.